MUSEUM ART & DESIGN
Information-based Pedagogy
A lecture rooted in information-based, object-focused museum learning, predominantly non-interactive except for a question-and-answer session towards the end of the lecture. $15 for an hour-long session. Current topics offered include:
Impressionism
Surrealism
Dadaism
New York Abstract Expressionism
The Washington Color School
Conceptual Art
Multimedia Art
A Survey of Modernism: From the Impressionists to Today
Conversation-based Pedagogy
A conversation-based experience structured like a virtual private museum tour. Beyond learning about each work, we will begin to investigate how to read a work of art: if it’s a neoclassical work, this may be rooted in technique; if it’s an abstract work, this may be rooted in ideas and theory. $20 for an hour-long session. Current topics offered include:
How to Respond to Modern Art: Works from the Kreeger Collection
What Absence Is Made Of: Works from the Hirshhorn Collection
Manifesto — Famous -isms through Art History: Works from the Hirshhorn Collection
A Survey of Modern Sculpture: Works from the Hirshhorn & Kreeger Collections
Hands-on Pedagogy
HEAR ART, SEE MUSIC
A fully interactive experience split into two parts: a multidisciplinary artistic investigation and a generative workshop. The first half is a conversation-based abridged private museum tour, but investigating each work of art also involves a sensory component to aid in our understanding. The second half involves a mask making workshop inspired by the African masks of the Kreeger collection and Picasso’s Cubist portraits. $25 for an 75-minute-long session, and you will be asked to provide craft materials — whatever you have laying around the house, the more the merrier.
cityvision fundamentals
Rooted in the fundamental sessions of the 8-week CityVision program at the National Building Museum, these fast-paced, activity-based workshops invite the student to investigate the built world and value their role in shaping it for the future. The first session focuses on the fundamentals of design and the design process, the second session looks closer at scale, sustainability, and considering the needs of the demographic or client for which you are designing, and the final session provides an introduction to urban planning and conflict-resolution in the planning process based on the needs of a community over time. The program is intended to be explored over the course of three separate hour-long sessions, but feel free to pick and choose what interests you. $25 per session, and you will be asked to provide craft materials — whatever you have laying around the house, the more the merrier.
All classes available in private one-on-one format and in private family format, for multiple-student households. In private family format, pay is per session, not per individual.